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Article #144Re: The Best Internet Service Provider Backbone?
From: eisen
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <PPMORRIS.495.0009A994@mailbox.syr.edu>, <PPMORRIS@mailbox.syr.edu> writes: > >: Honestly, I have *not* heard good things about PSI. I > >: have heard that they have poor customer service, and that they tend to ignore > >: problems. But I'm trying to separate the customer service issues from > >the > >: pure technical issues. Is their design the best one? > > Everything you have heard is absolutely true. I can think of at least four > horror stories off the top of my head that I have personally been involved > with when using PSI's services. It is really a nightmare to deal with them. > > As far as the technical merits of their design. Well, they had been using > that > design for a while before we switched to another provider. Before we switched, > it was pretty common for us to get about a 20-30% packet loss on their network. > > _Pete M. > I find this slightly ironic... when we were first shopping for in internet provider we had been considering PSI, but wound up with MCI. PSI sales guy tried telling me on the phone, "I have heard some people have really been unhappy with MCI.. you should think this over". Of course I expected it becaused they lost the deal..but know to hear this. Terry Eisenbraun eisen@xnet.com Made of my own opinion, not that of my employer's...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f637c,d02fbcdc95dacbf9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf637c,public X-Google-Thread: fa874,d02fbcdc95dacbf9 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa874,public X-Google-Thread: f4e50,d02fbcdc95dacbf9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4e50,public X-Google-Thread: ffda2,d02fbcdc95dacbf9 X-Google-Attributes: gidffda2,public X-Google-Thread: 10f2ac,d02fbcdc95dacbf9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f2ac,public X-Google-Thread: 102702,d02fbcdc95dacbf9 X-Google-Attributes: gid102702,public X-Google-Thread: fa970,d02fbcdc95dacbf9 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa970,public From: eisen@xnet.com Subject: Re: The Best Internet Service Provider Backbone? Date: 1995/12/16 Message-ID: <NEWTNews.819129272.488.eisen@lemoyne.xnet.com> X-Deja-AN: 122012054 references: <westesDJIB42.Cu0@netcom.com> <4am00e$ndj@lonepeak.vii.com> <PPMORRIS.495.0009A994@mailbox.syr.edu> content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: XNet - A Full Service Internet Provider - (708) 983-6064 mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom.tech,comp.dcom.sys.cisco,comp.dcom.servers,comp.dcom.net-management,comp.dcom.frame-relay,comp.dcom.cell-relay,ba.internet